Gluten Free 'TRIPLE CHOCOLATE BROWNIE'

oH mY! If you've been craving 'good stuff' since being told you have to be living a Gluten Free life, this is it! Good old chocolate brownie, but I'm a chocoholic and so I have added more chocolate to my recipe!

125g Olivani (Dairy Free Butter/Spread)

2 large eggs

1 cup white sugar

1 cup Gluten Free Flour (less 1 Tbspn) (I use 'Family Choice' from Binn Inn)

2-4 Tbspn Dairy Free cocoa (I use 'Pams')

1 tspn vanilla essence

1 tspn baking powder (Edmonds GF)

Chocolate - as much as you like!

Pre-heat the oven to 180 degrees celcius

Melt butter in microwave proof bowl until just melted, but not hot. Beat in with a fork the sugar, vanilla & eggs.

Sift in flour, cocoa and baking powder, stir well.

Lastly add chocolate. I use 3 rows of Cadbury Dream, 3 rows of Cadbury Dairy Milk and 2 rows of Cadbury Old Gold chocolate, chopped up as small or large as you like. I mix this through.

Line a 20x30cm slice tin and carefully spread brownie mix unitl evenly spread.

Bake in the preheated oven for 27 minutes (not fan forced, if so, decrease the time)

Dust with icing sugar and serve with cream or icecream.

Gluten Free 'SPAGETTI & MEATBALLS'

WOW! A meal my children loved, doesn't happen much at the moment, it's no easy task trying to find meals that the littlies love. I simply adapted an old meatball recipe and the rest is easy peasy! My recipe is based on a family of 5 and the portions are medium sized and include 1 teenage boy and a man!

Pasta.. I use San Remo GF Spagetti pasta

Tomato Sauce..

1 tin chopped tomatoes (I use plain chopped without added herbs-up to your tastebuds)

1 small tin tomato paste

1 Tbspn balsamic vinegar

1 Tbspn brown sugar

1/4 tspn salt

1 clove garlic finely chopped

Pepper to taste

1/4 cup water

You can add herbs to taste, its personal preferance! We don't like herbs much.

I put this all into a frying pan and simmer away for about 10-20minutes until it's well reduced and has thickened.

Meatballs..

700g+ good quality prime beef mince

1 medium finely chopped onion

1-2 cloves garlic finely chopped

1 egg

1 heaped tspn beef stock powder (I use Massel Beef Stock Powder)

1 tspn soy sauce (I use 'Sungold Soy Sauce - Thick, bought for $4 from Pak'n'Save, NZ)

1/4 cup GF breadcrumbs (or I use Orgran GF all purpose Rice Crumbs)

Salt & Pepper to taste

I mix this all well in a bowl and roll desertspoon fulls into balls and put into a frying pan with 1cm olive oil. Cover & cook for 10-15 minutes turning regularly and until cooked in the centre)

I take out the meatballs and put them into the frying pan with the tomato sauce and heat through when ready to eat.

Cook spagetti pasta while cooking the meatballs and serve tomato sauce covered meatballs on top of a pile of spagetti, you can grate parmasan or cheese over the top. I am really looking forward to trying mozerella on top, one day!

As mentioned we have a little one who cannot eat tomatoes at the moment, so I do not put his meatballs into the tomato sauce, but simply leave them without a sauce and he loves it all the same. (you could use a 'No-Mato' sauce recipe, if they like it!)